Re: Facebook Messages
Hi Diana, Have you deleted your Facebook Account? Have you asked to be unsubscribed by using the unsubscribe link at the end of the Facebook email? There is an option on Facebook that scans the contents of a members' address book and sends out invites to people not already on Facebook. If someone has done this then you should have at least heard of them, having presumably exchanged e-mails at some point in the past. Cheers, Ronni On 26/09/2012, at 1:45 PM, Diana Graham Stevens diag...@iinet.net.au wrote: I joined Facebook by mistake when I was trying to use a new App on my iPad. I have never nominated any friends and I only ever logged on once to look at something on the ABC Classic FM page. From time to time I get messages about people I don't know wanting to contact me, I just delete them. Now I have a message with six names I do recognize, three I have corresponded with in the past, three I only know from mailing lists including one from WAMUG. Where did Facebook find these people? Is there something wrong with the way my network is set up? Is there anything I can do to prevent this intrusion? Best wishes to all from Diana Sent from my iPad -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Facebook Messages
Thanks Ronni I have unsubscribed from the email and I shall delete my account. I had assumed the other emails about unknown people were part of a scam, I don't think they appeared the same as this one but I did not study them seriously. The three people I have corresponded with are in my Address Book, but for the other three there are only emails from WAMUG, and from lists on RootsWeb and Yahoo, which I saved because they contained useful information. In one case the person's full name only appears in the body of the text not in the address line. They must have harvested all the email addresses from a great stack of emails, I am surprised they got so few matches with people on Facebook! Best wishes from Diana On 26/09/2012, at 2:27 PM, Ronni Brown wrote: Hi Diana, Have you deleted your Facebook Account? Have you asked to be unsubscribed by using the unsubscribe link at the end of the Facebook email? There is an option on Facebook that scans the contents of a members' address book and sends out invites to people not already on Facebook. If someone has done this then you should have at least heard of them, having presumably exchanged e-mails at some point in the past. Cheers, Ronni On 26/09/2012, at 1:45 PM, Diana Graham Stevens diag...@iinet.net.au wrote: I joined Facebook by mistake when I was trying to use a new App on my iPad. I have never nominated any friends and I only ever logged on once to look at something on the ABC Classic FM page. From time to time I get messages about people I don't know wanting to contact me, I just delete them. Now I have a message with six names I do recognize, three I have corresponded with in the past, three I only know from mailing lists including one from WAMUG. Where did Facebook find these people? Is there something wrong with the way my network is set up? Is there anything I can do to prevent this intrusion? Best wishes to all from Diana Sent from my iPad -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Facebook Messages
Hi Diana, If you are concerned that the Facebook email about unknown people might not have come from Facebook, check the links contained in the e-mail by examining the source (the option will vary depending on your e-mail client). If you are using Apple Mail: Select the Message, then Go To View Message Raw Source. Check that the message has come from Facebook. It could be a scam designed to get you to think you are signing up to Facebook as a means of getting personal details from you. It sounds like you've done the sensible thing and deleted your Facebook Account and not clicked on any of the links in the emails other than the Unsubscribe at the bottom. Cheers, Ronni On 26/09/2012, at 5:25 PM, Diana Graham Stevens diag...@iinet.net.au wrote: Thanks Ronni I have unsubscribed from the email and I shall delete my account. I had assumed the other emails about unknown people were part of a scam, I don't think they appeared the same as this one but I did not study them seriously. The three people I have corresponded with are in my Address Book, but for the other three there are only emails from WAMUG, and from lists on RootsWeb and Yahoo, which I saved because they contained useful information. In one case the person's full name only appears in the body of the text not in the address line. They must have harvested all the email addresses from a great stack of emails, I am surprised they got so few matches with people on Facebook! Best wishes from Diana On 26/09/2012, at 2:27 PM, Ronni Brown wrote: Hi Diana, Have you deleted your Facebook Account? Have you asked to be unsubscribed by using the unsubscribe link at the end of the Facebook email? There is an option on Facebook that scans the contents of a members' address book and sends out invites to people not already on Facebook. If someone has done this then you should have at least heard of them, having presumably exchanged e-mails at some point in the past. Cheers, Ronni On 26/09/2012, at 1:45 PM, Diana Graham Stevens diag...@iinet.net.au wrote: I joined Facebook by mistake when I was trying to use a new App on my iPad. I have never nominated any friends and I only ever logged on once to look at something on the ABC Classic FM page. From time to time I get messages about people I don't know wanting to contact me, I just delete them. Now I have a message with six names I do recognize, three I have corresponded with in the past, three I only know from mailing lists including one from WAMUG. Where did Facebook find these people? Is there something wrong with the way my network is set up? Is there anything I can do to prevent this intrusion? Best wishes to all from Diana Sent from my iPad -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Facebook Messages
Hi Ronni It is a while since I got the 'unknown people' messages but if I get any more I shall look at the Raw Source as you suggest. About the same time I saw a warning on one of my mailing lists about scam messages from Facebook, I assumed that's what they were but I did not bother checking. Best wishes from Diana Sent from my iPad On 27/09/2012, at 10:17 AM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Diana, If you are concerned that the Facebook email about unknown people might not have come from Facebook, check the links contained in the e-mail by examining the source (the option will vary depending on your e-mail client). If you are using Apple Mail: Select the Message, then Go To View Message Raw Source. Check that the message has come from Facebook. It could be a scam designed to get you to think you are signing up to Facebook as a means of getting personal details from you. It sounds like you've done the sensible thing and deleted your Facebook Account and not clicked on any of the links in the emails other than the Unsubscribe at the bottom. Cheers, Ronni On 26/09/2012, at 5:25 PM, Diana Graham Stevens diag...@iinet.net.au wrote: Thanks Ronni I have unsubscribed from the email and I shall delete my account. I had assumed the other emails about unknown people were part of a scam, I don't think they appeared the same as this one but I did not study them seriously. The three people I have corresponded with are in my Address Book, but for the other three there are only emails from WAMUG, and from lists on RootsWeb and Yahoo, which I saved because they contained useful information. In one case the person's full name only appears in the body of the text not in the address line. They must have harvested all the email addresses from a great stack of emails, I am surprised they got so few matches with people on Facebook! Best wishes from Diana On 26/09/2012, at 2:27 PM, Ronni Brown wrote: Hi Diana, Have you deleted your Facebook Account? Have you asked to be unsubscribed by using the unsubscribe link at the end of the Facebook email? There is an option on Facebook that scans the contents of a members' address book and sends out invites to people not already on Facebook. If someone has done this then you should have at least heard of them, having presumably exchanged e-mails at some point in the past. Cheers, Ronni On 26/09/2012, at 1:45 PM, Diana Graham Stevens diag...@iinet.net.au wrote: I joined Facebook by mistake when I was trying to use a new App on my iPad. I have never nominated any friends and I only ever logged on once to look at something on the ABC Classic FM page. From time to time I get messages about people I don't know wanting to contact me, I just delete them. Now I have a message with six names I do recognize, three I have corresponded with in the past, three I only know from mailing lists including one from WAMUG. Where did Facebook find these people? Is there something wrong with the way my network is set up? Is there anything I can do to prevent this intrusion? Best wishes to all from Diana Sent from my iPad -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Facebook Messages
I joined Facebook by mistake when I was trying to use a new App on my iPad. I have never nominated any friends and I only ever logged on once to look at something on the ABC Classic FM page. From time to time I get messages about people I don't know wanting to contact me, I just delete them. Now I have a message with six names I do recognize, three I have corresponded with in the past, three I only know from mailing lists including one from WAMUG. Where did Facebook find these people? Is there something wrong with the way my network is set up? Is there anything I can do to prevent this intrusion? Best wishes to all from Diana Sent from my iPad -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
